V. Balakrishnan (born 1943 as Venkataraman Balakrishnan) is an Indian theoretical physicist, who has worked in a number of fields and areas, including particle physics, many-body theory, the mechanical behavior of solids, dynamical systems, stochastic processes, and quantum dynamics.

He is an accomplished researcher who has made important contributions to the theory of anelasticity, continuous-time random walks, and recurrences in dynamical systems.

[1] He received his undergraduate degree from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi[2] and PhD from Brandeis University in 1970.

He has taught a wide range of courses over the past 30 years from introductory physics to quantum field theory to dynamical systems.

[14] His wife, Radha Balakrishnan, is a theoretical physicist who works on nonlinear dynamics (in particular, solitons and integrable systems).